Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.